We performed a comparison between Akamai App and API Protector and F5 Shape Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Web Services (AWS), F5, Microsoft and others in Web Application Firewall (WAF)."Adaptive stream delivery and WAF protection are valuable."
"The product has a good UI."
"I can attest to its benefits in terms of understanding and mitigating threats...The solution's technical support team seems to be pretty responsive."
"The support that we got from their technical team has been fantastic. I have never experienced this level of support from other CDN providers."
"All the solution's features are very good."
"The features are powerful and better than F5."
"Everything will be handled by Akamai's system before it reaches our infrastructure."
"It is scalable for DDoS."
"F5 Shape Security's most valuable feature is performance."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the ease of configuration."
"I do not see any area for improvement. Akamai is already maintaining its own databases for the security concerns, vulnerabilities, and attacks that are there. If anything, they should have a solution in the infrastructure security area as well. They should not be only in cloud cybersecurity; they should also be in infrastructure security."
"The WAF features definitely have a lot of room for improvement. A lot of the WAF is really basic. For some products or some of our solutions, we need to run a second layer of more advanced WAF. If it had better layer seven protection then we would not need a second WAF."
"They are already very flexible, but room for improvement is there. Reports generation could be better and should be improved."
"The custom rules must be improved."
"The performance of the cloud monitoring tool is low."
"Akamai App and API Protector is very new to me, so I do not have any insights on improvement areas for the product. However, when we ask for some help, it can take some time. We understand that the job is done by professionals, but if that time can be reduced, it would be great."
"The solution could offer even more integrations."
"If we talk about application layer attacks, including WAF, CloudFlare is leading. Akamai can focus a bit more on the application layer attacks and how to protect them."
"I want the solution's custom exclusion rules to be more granular."
"The tool's price is high."
Akamai App and API Protector is ranked 8th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 27 reviews while F5 Shape Security is ranked 7th in Fraud Detection and Prevention with 2 reviews. Akamai App and API Protector is rated 8.4, while F5 Shape Security is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Akamai App and API Protector writes "Easy to learn and gives us a report of traffic". On the other hand, the top reviewer of F5 Shape Security writes "Easy to configure and blocks bot attacks for web users". Akamai App and API Protector is most compared with Cloudflare Web Application Firewall, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, AWS WAF and Prolexic, whereas F5 Shape Security is most compared with Akamai Bot Manager, Cloudflare, HUMAN BotGuard for Applications, Imperva DDoS and F5 Silverline Managed Services.
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